After achieving picture lock we have finally finished our visual effects and prepared the product for sound. Honestly, I can see now that we had too many visual effects for my first film. I think it is a good idea to focus on certain goals for each short that you accomplish as a beginning filmmaker and this one had a bit much- not too much for me to chew, necessarily. That's not what I mean. I like a challenge. But, it was more than I had planned for this film. Especially since my wife would be given (proportionately) too large a bite to chew for an extremely part time job. She works full time at the Home Shopping Network, so this amount of effects can make even a relatively short film become a huge ordeal to tackle- but she did eagerly.
The film is now ready for Sound Mixing and for any musical accompaniment while we complete the coloring (which is already mostly done). A few songs may need to be composed but we will see what we can come up with given the right kind of help.
I just have to admit I am very pleased with the pictures here and what we have made from our short production time. Everybody who really worked hard, Wheat, Joy, Marcus, Pat, John, Mici, Tom, Trevor... we really did something great here. Pretty soon we will all see what our hard work accomplished. I will be sure to let you guys know when there is something I can show you! Until then, know that I am very happy with what we have... and I have seen a lot of local shorts and features. We have a good chance to make a dent- in fact I am SURE we will.
I'll be keeping you all in the loop! :)
